Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/The College of Wooster/FYS You Are What You Eat (Fall 2020)

Food is more than just a nutritional building block for life: it is a marker for identity, signifying who belongs and who does not; it serves as a way to explore the migration of people, goods, and ideas; it underlines technological changes and their impacts on daily life; it points to culturally specific ideas about health, taste, and status. In this seminar, we’ll explore the history of food production and consumption, examining how tracing the spread of crops like corn, sugar, or potatoes can reveal a great deal about colonialism, power, and the construction of difference. We’ll take an interdisciplinary approach to food, considering psychological, historical, environmental, and cultural perspectives on taste, consumption, and identity.

Students in this class will contribute to Wikipedia's coverage of cultural diversity by improving articles on global food habits and consumption.

Week 2
Welcome to your FYS Wikipedia Portal. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces.

For this first week, we're going to focus on the kinds of evidence used on Wikipedia how to evaluate sources.

Our course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resources:


 * Evaluating Wikipedia

Over the course of the semester, we'll use Moodle forums as a place to reflect about your experiences learning about informational literacy, evaluating articles, and engaging with the larger Wikipedia community. You can use discussion questions to frame your entries, as well as reflect on the research and writing process. Prompts for these entries are in our syllabus.

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account, joined our course page, and completed the initial trainings.

Week 3
Using your new library research skills, add a new sentence and citation to your choice of existing articles. (Or you can choose to copy edit and add a relevant citation to information that is already there.



Pick your choice of articles related to course themes. As you read, consider the following questions (but don't feel limited to these),  These should be the basis of your forum post.


 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?
 * Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
 * Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
 * Check out the Talk page of the article. What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?

Week 5
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

Write a forum post where you explain your article choice and why you think it is an important topic to address Wikipedia's content gaps. List some preliminary sources you'll read to support your work.

Cultural Anthropology

Environmental Sciences

History

Week 6
Go you your article's talk page and write a post that describes the changes you plan to make to strengthen the article and a preliminary list of at least five sources that meet Wikipedia's standards for evidence.

Comment on two peers' talk page plans.

Week 7
Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 8
Please talk with Dr. Holt or Tongtong if you need help with your entry!

Week 9
Have your contributions ready for your peers' feedback!

Guiding framework

Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.

Week 10
You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. Write a forum post that considers their suggestions and decides whether it makes your work more accurate and complete.

After your forum post, edit your entry to make those improvements.

Resources:


 * Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
 * Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.

Now's the time to revisit your text and refine your work. You may do more research and find missing information; rewrite the lead section to represent all major points; reorganize the text to communicate the information better; or add images and other media.

Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!

Week 11
It's the final week to develop your article.


 * Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final check-list before completing your assignment.
 * Don't forget that you can ask for help from your Wikipedia Expert at any time!